Francis Quarles Quotes
30 Francis Quarles quotes:
"No cross no crown."
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"Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury."
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"Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester."
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"Wickedness is its own punishment."
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"That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end."
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"Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest."
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"Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice."
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"The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were."
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"The road to perseverance lies by doubt."
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"It is the lot of man but once to die."
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"The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient."
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"And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age"
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"My mind's my kingdom."
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"Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune."
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"Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue."
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"Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise."
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"Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action."
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"And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses."
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"Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the w"
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"Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."
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